Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

“Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera.”

Cameras

Essentials

Photography

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

Book

Intense

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

Burning

Helping

Purpose

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time… Everything was touched with magic.

Golden

Magic

Photography

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

Opportunity

Perfect

Photography

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited – as all good photographers like to be – in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

Fate

Photography

Winning

Even while you’re in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

Athlete

Feelings

Joy

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

Choices

Men

Photography

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

Forgotten

Made

Photography

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I’m actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour’s and everything’s sudden stopping.

Cameras

Soul

Waiting

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Athlete

Beauty

Believe

Book

Burning

Cameras

Choices

Closed Doors

Desert

Discovery

Done

Doors

Essentials

Events

Excellence

Eye

Fate

Fear Not

Fear Nothing

Feelings

Forgotten

Gains

Gardening

Giving

Goes On

Golden

Hands

Happens

Helping

Hurt

Ideas

Important

Insight

Intense

Joy

Life

Lifelong

Lines

Long

Made

Magic

Memories

Men

Might

Moral

Opportunity

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People

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Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White

“Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera.”

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time… Everything was touched with magic.

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights… That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited – as all good photographers like to be – in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

Even while you’re in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

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